Ben Collins, Dollars and Sense. August 12, 2008. Prices of basic agricultural commodities have skyrocketed worldwide, threatening to further impoverish hundreds of millions of the world's poor.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 5, 2008. To survive we need to recognize that these threats are not separate problems, and they must be addressed as one major crisis.
Robert Weissman, Middle East Online. August 4, 2008. Don't shed any tears for the death of the WTO talks -- the whole thing should have been called the Doha Anti-Development Round.
Frei Betto, Latin America in Movement. July 16, 2008. The average price of food has tripled in the last twelve months. We may soon be buying our groceries from a boutique.
Sameer Dossani, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 8, 2008. The story of rising food costs and the simultaneous collapse in many financial markets is unlikely to be a coincidence.
Will Allen, AlterNet. June 6, 2008. The question about the real price of food should be rephrased: Is it worth sending cheap, poisonous food to the starving masses?
Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2008. Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 and will likely keep rising in 2008.
Kevin Hall, Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers. August 14, 2007. Already stung by a two-year rise in gasoline prices, American consumers now face sharply higher prices for foods they can't do without. At the same time, half of the nation's eligible poor aren't getting the food stamps to which they're entitled
